Transportation Secretary Oscar Puente announced Monday that LTrains traveling between southern Spain and Barcelona will stop entering the capital, Madrid, to reduce times. This is because A Station in Parla … This will allow the Seville-Barcelona corridor trains not to pass through the Atocha and Chamartín stations.
Along with this new station, Puente reported that the Spanish railway network will reduce times from then on Traffic speed will range from 300 to 350 kilometers per hour. This is a speed that currently only occurs in China, according to the minister. The AV350 project will start with the Madrid-Barcelona AVE because “the road allows us to go at 350 km/h without touching it,” which will allow the two cities to be connected in less than two hours in about three years. “Not only does this make passengers arrive earlier, but more space is created on the track because the train covers less track the faster it moves,” he explained. The date for implementing the new speed on the rest of the country’s lines has not been determined.
The announcement comes on a day when Seville once again piled up delays and incidents on its commuter, medium-haul and high-speed network that have affected 19 trains Because there is no tension in the catenary between the stations of Laura del Río and La Salud in Dos Hermanas.
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